[R] Rscript on OSX

[Andrew Beckerman]

Ido -

R for OSX generally runs via an application, called R.app, which your  
colleague could find in their applications directory.  It can run  
scripts and has a rather nice script editor associated with it.

You can run R as you would in linux using X11.app, found in  
Applications->Utilities on OSX.  R is not designed to run from  
Terminal.app (actually, terminal does not do graphics well for R).    
X11 provides the behaviour that you would be used to in Linux etc.

BTW - there is a R-Mac-help group as well for macintosh specific  
issues - r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch

Andrew

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On 9 Jan 2008, at 13:22, Ido M. Tamir wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I directed somebody to install R (2.6.1) on his OSX computer,
> following instructions from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx.
> She can run R from the console.
> But plot(1:10) doesn't produce any output or open a window (as I am
> used to from linux).
>
> More importantly:
> Rscript is not in the path (minor problem ln -s is hopefully  
> doable). I tried
> to put a hardcoded path to Rscript into the shebang line but this  
> fails. And
> when I try to invoke it directly:
>
>> -bash: ./Rscript: cannot execute binary file
>
> On linux this works.
>
> I would like to send her some Rscripts, but how can we make them
> run on her system?
>
>
>
> thank you very much,
> ido
>
>
>
> imaclab3:/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin ru$ ls -l
>
> total 1008
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    1654 Nov 26 17:36 BATCH
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    2188 Nov 26 17:36 COMPILE
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   34391 Nov 26 17:36 INSTALL
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    1593 Nov 26 17:36 LINK
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    7210 Nov 26 17:37 R
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    7210 Nov 26 17:37 R.orig
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin     655 Nov 26 17:37 R.rej
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    2244 Nov 26 17:36 REMOVE
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin     928 Nov 26 17:36 Rcmd
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    9523 Nov 26 17:36 Rd2dvi
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin     842 Nov 26 17:36 Rd2txt
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    3237 Nov 26 17:36 Rdconv
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    1320 Nov 26 17:36 Rdiff
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    2854 Nov 26 17:36 Rprof
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   18084 Nov 26 17:36 Rscript
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    4656 Nov 26 17:36 SHLIB
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   16129 Nov 26 17:36 Sd2Rd
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin     730 Nov 26 17:36 Stangle
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin     726 Nov 26 17:36 Sweave
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   21715 Nov 26 17:36 build
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   78570 Nov 26 17:36 check
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    6927 Nov 26 17:36 config
> drwxrwxr-x   4 root  admin     136 Nov 26 17:36 exec
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    3613 Nov 26 17:36 f77_f2c
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin   10720 Nov 26 17:36 javareconf
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin  215101 Nov 26 17:36 libtool
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin    3495 Nov 26 17:36 mkinstalldirs
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  admin     413 Nov 26 17:36 pager
>
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